John,
Ok. CapsLock can be problematic between host and virtual machines/apps
(state is lost or not captured by one or the other). If you can figure
out what keypress causes a problem, you could bypass normal input with
the help of Autohotkey. E.g., I have these in my Autohotkey file:
; vDosPlus keyboad
; ----------------
#IfWinActive, vDosPlus ahk_class vDos
; Alt-Ctrl-NumpadIns
!^NumpadIns::
{
Send, #^v
Exit
}
; vDosXy keyboard
; ---------------
#IfWinActive, ahk_class SDL_app
; Alt-Ctrl-NumpadIns
!^NumpadIns::
{
Send, #^v
Exit
}To suppress external influences in the XyWrite keyboard file, there are
NI (= no Xy-external interrupt), NO (= no operation) and bk (= stop
current process). These used judiciously may also alleviate the situation.
Best regards,
Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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Kari,
I think it must be vdosplus; I'm on the machine several hours a day,
7-days a week, and it's never happened outside xy3/vdosplus. For the
same reason I'm dubious about static electricity.
Per Carl's point, I do recall now caplocks freezes from time to time,
over the years. But this one is more extreme and so far resistant to
fixes, including keyboard disconnects/reconnects. But we'll see if it
continues...